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Macbook Pro Retina or MBP?

Hi Guys.

I am interested to know your opinions on the following, as im stuck at a crossroards and just cant quite decide what to go for.

I am a designer and looking at buying a Brand new, New Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display, Intel Quad Core i7, 2.4GHz, 256GB, 8GB RAM, with 15.4 Inch Display or the Apple MacBook Pro, Intel Quad Core i7, 2.6GHz, 750GB, 8GB RAM with 15.4 Inch Display.

Now i do have a 2009 standard Macbook but would like to upgrade, i sometimes play games like Call of Duty 2/4 and Counterstrike Global Offensive but its pretty hard as the laptop is barely playable online with these games.

I was wondering if either of these 2 laptops im looking at purchasing would play any of these games comfortable with stable and high FPS as i do love the occasional multiplayer game.

Is retina really worth the extra money? will it improve visual graphically ingame?

I know both these laptops will be fantastic for my designing needs, but do they play well gaming online? which would perform better?

Any reply or input would be much appreiated.

Many thanks.

MacBook Pro

Posted on Mar 8, 2013 4:02 PM

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Mar 9, 2013 4:11 PM in response to Shootist007

cmon guys lets not start an arguement, im sure shootist didnt understand what kind of store John Lewis is as hes from the USA no problems, everyone has been extremly helpful. methwolf, do you have a steam account?

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Mar 9, 2013 4:20 PM in response to Pete77777

No argument. Just responding to an incorrect post calling me out.

To my knowlege in the post from you that I was replying to you had not stated where you were buying it from and only said it was not directly from Apple.

Sorry for taking up space on your thread.

Pete77777 wrote:

cmon guys lets not start an arguement, im sure shootist didnt understand what kind of store John Lewis is as hes from the USA no problems, everyone has been extremly helpful. methwolf, do you have a steam account?

Mar 9, 2013 4:22 PM in response to Pete77777

I do not have a steam account anymore as that has taken up a chunk of my time, haha. Apologies.

I do play Diablo III and that is what I have been doing as of lately. (Also Skyrim, but on PS3) If you play D3, let me know.

Mar 9, 2013 5:18 PM in response to Pete77777

Pete77777 wrote:

So i will need to buy a disc drive,

Not necessarily. You can also use the drive on another Mac that's on your network.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5287

For example, I used the drive on my iMac to load Micorsoft Office onto my new 13" MacBook retina.

Matt

Macbook Pro Retina or MBP?